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Man today was a doozy! My patient today was one of my previous patient's mom's from Tooele. She was coming SO far so I scheduled so I could stay all day and hopefully finish her. Well, I wasn't sure if she needed a full mouth set of x-rays and since she spoke broken english but mostly spanish I was a little apprehsive about explaining it to her. So Kim said that I could do the OD first and then decide about what type and how many to take. When Kim came to check the OD she said that she was a perfect board patient!! So, I got ahold of Emily Stapp to come check so I could know what I was going to scale today. Instructor Vining came over to talk to my patient in spanish about being a board patient on another day and taking a full-mouth. It was great b/c I didn't have to explain!!! (What a cop-out!!). So I took the FMX and excused her for lunch. When we came back I was told that I should do the left side so Emily could do the RS for boards. Well, she had some seriously tenacious caculus!!! I got the LL quad done and had like 6 mistakes. (Boo) So I tried to fix it, but coudldn't get it! So Kim came to help me. I started to ultrasonic on the UL quad and time was getting thin. I asked Kim if she could just finish so that my patient didn't have to drive all the way back for one stupid quad. So Kim just finished for me. I had Instructor Vining come do the OHI and I didn't even get to do fluoride! What a mess! So after a FULL day in clinic I only got 1 quad of a class II. It was all-in-all a good day!